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Thursday, December 31, 2009

Snow clearing in Nairnshire - time for a 'back to the future' approach with Protocols à la 1936?

Thanks again to Gurnite 'MR Archive' who has sent this interesting document. It will enlarge and shows you how Nairnshire coped in the past long before the Highland Council was ever invented. Would it be far better if the County's resources were once again put under local control with the help of volunteers?

To see the rules of engagement for all volunteers see here, to see who the good citizens that gave their time to help were please see here and here on images posted on Flickr.

The same idea could work both in the town and the County? Once we have a single Community Council for Nairn perhaps they and the other councils in Nairnshire could make this type of self-help organisation a reality once more. All we will see from Highland Council in the future will be more cuts. The people of Nairnshire are the only ones with the solutions now!

10 comments:

growtosow
said...

were's my horse and plough going too be? and would it be ok if we used them on the allotment and of couse more manure for us. going green and very keen. why not these guys did it before us i am sure folk would do it.

Unfortunately the time has come (back) for the community to take control. There's little point in us all moaning that it's up to the council etc, etc. In an ideal world it is up to the council but we have to get real, if we want something done we'll have to do it for ourselves and stop sitting around waiting for someone else to do it.

From AnonymousAs a matter of fact Jingle, I was out today doing just that! Were you?I'm trying to be a realistic pessimist. Haven't we got past the time for sitting on our arses and moaning about what should be getting done and making statements about getting rebates etc, etc? I feel pretty pissed off that the council is not doing the things that need to be done like clearing the pavements and roads but as I said earlier, it's time we got real. It's time we started taking some responsibility and stopped waiting for mammy and daddy to do it for us. We've all got too soft!

Anonymous replying to Jingle.Sorry, Jingle, no appointments available today. However, a 76 year old friend of mine could come round to put you to shame, she's already cleared her own path and her neighbours.

do you not mean a silver surfer. i believe this is the term for those of a certain age who surf the net. the old ones are always the best. and you can only admire them put a lot of the young ones too shame any day